This topic describes 4 methods to transfer and synchronize VideoPsalm songs from one PC to another.
 | Method 1 |
In a common situation, you have VideoPsalm installed on your home PC, and on the church PC.
The initial setup follows more or less these steps:
On your home PC
1. Install VideoPsalm.
2. Add predefined songbooks.
3. Add Bibles.
4. Assign style attributes, like font, size, alignment, colors, animations, etc.
5. Type-in some songs.
6. etc.
7. Using VideoPsalm's integrated Backup/Restore functions, backup the VideoPsalm documents to a USB stick.
On your church PC
You want to get exactly the same setup as the one you have at home.
1. Install VideoPsalm.
2. Using VideoPsalm's integrated Backup/Restore functions, restore the USB stick backup to the church PC.
The initial setup follows more or less these steps:
On your home PC
1. Install VideoPsalm.
2. Add predefined songbooks.
3. Add Bibles.
4. Assign style attributes, like font, size, alignment, colors, animations, etc.
5. Type-in some songs.
6. etc.
7. Using VideoPsalm's integrated Backup/Restore functions, backup the VideoPsalm documents to a USB stick.
On your church PC
You want to get exactly the same setup as the one you have at home.
1. Install VideoPsalm.
2. Using VideoPsalm's integrated Backup/Restore functions, restore the USB stick backup to the church PC.
 | Method 2 |
VideoPsalm stores each songbook in a file on your hard drive.
A handy way to transfer songbooks from one PC to another, is to copy their files from one PC to the other, for example via a USB stick.
To easily locate the songbooks on your hard drive, open the VideoPsalm options, and press the “Explore” button:
A handy way to transfer songbooks from one PC to another, is to copy their files from one PC to the other, for example via a USB stick.
To easily locate the songbooks on your hard drive, open the VideoPsalm options, and press the “Explore” button:
Your songbooks are located in the “Songbooks” sub-folder.
Copy the songbooks onto a USB stick.
On the church PC, paste your USB stick songbooks to the corresponding VideoPsalm folder.
Copy the songbooks onto a USB stick.
On the church PC, paste your USB stick songbooks to the corresponding VideoPsalm folder.
With method 2 (compared to method 1), you will want to manually copy the “Songbooks” and the “Base” style files located in the VideoPsalm document folder, stored in following files:
- SongBookStyle.json
- RootStyle.json
 | Method 3 |
This solution comes in handy when you have only a few songs to transfer.
It is something that will happen on a weekly basis.
1. On your home PC, type-in new songs and make song corrections.
2. Put all new or edited songs into an agenda.
3. Save the agenda onto a USB stick.
An agenda contains all that is needed to reproduce your presentation identically on another PC:
4. On the church PC, open the agenda from the USB stick.
VideoPsalm will automatically:
It is something that will happen on a weekly basis.
1. On your home PC, type-in new songs and make song corrections.
2. Put all new or edited songs into an agenda.
3. Save the agenda onto a USB stick.
An agenda contains all that is needed to reproduce your presentation identically on another PC:
- Songs with their lyrics
- Styles (the backgrounds, styles at different levels)
- Songbooks definitions
- Styles (Songbooks, Bibles, Base)
- Slideshow images
- Standalone videos
- PowerPoints
- etc.
4. On the church PC, open the agenda from the USB stick.
VideoPsalm will automatically:
- Add to your church PC all the agenda songs, in particular those that are not yet there.
- Create the potential new songbooks.
- Add the song backgrounds to the image and video galleries.
- If the songs are already on the church PC, their lyrics and other attributes are replaced by those from the agenda, depending on how you set up the “Agenda open” options on the church PC:
“Agenda Open” options
Preserve the text of my songbooks and Bibles
When this option is active, VideoPsalm does not replace the song lyrics on the church PC with those from the agenda (those from the home PC).
In case the church PC misses one or more songs from the agenda, VideoPsalm adds them to its songbooks, and, if necessary, creates the corresponding songbooks, regardless of the state of agenda open options.
When this option is active, VideoPsalm does not replace the song lyrics on the church PC with those from the agenda (those from the home PC).
In case the church PC misses one or more songs from the agenda, VideoPsalm adds them to its songbooks, and, if necessary, creates the corresponding songbooks, regardless of the state of agenda open options.
Preserve the styles of my songbooks and Bibles
When this option is active, VideoPsalm does not replace the styles of songs on the church PC by those from the agenda (those from the home PC).
When this option is active, VideoPsalm does not replace the styles of songs on the church PC by those from the agenda (those from the home PC).
Note The “Agenda open” options are turned off by default.
However, it is advised to turn these options on on the church PC, in order to protect the church song lyrics, their styles, etc. against changes propagated from your home PC through agendas, week after week.
However, it is advised to turn these options on on the church PC, in order to protect the church song lyrics, their styles, etc. against changes propagated from your home PC through agendas, week after week.
Consider following example
Someone prepares an agenda on his home PC. Among the songs, one is called “King of kings”. In our example, this song contains an accidentally mistyped title “King of all kings”. There are possibly other misspellings in the lyrics.
To prevent these errors to propagate to the church PC, enable the “Preserve the text of my songbooks and Bibles” option on the church PC.
In case your shields are both set, only new songs will be added to your church PC. Songs that already exist on your church PC won't get modified.
4. Finally, save the changes produced by opening the agenda:
Someone prepares an agenda on his home PC. Among the songs, one is called “King of kings”. In our example, this song contains an accidentally mistyped title “King of all kings”. There are possibly other misspellings in the lyrics.
To prevent these errors to propagate to the church PC, enable the “Preserve the text of my songbooks and Bibles” option on the church PC.
In case your shields are both set, only new songs will be added to your church PC. Songs that already exist on your church PC won't get modified.
4. Finally, save the changes produced by opening the agenda:
If you forget to save your changes, VideoPsalm will remind you about it when you close it.
Note that the songbooks and the Bibles only take little space on your hard drive:
A songbook with hundreds of songs occupies about a quarter of the space occupied by a photo.
A Bible takes about as much space as a photo.
Note that the songbooks and the Bibles only take little space on your hard drive:
A songbook with hundreds of songs occupies about a quarter of the space occupied by a photo.
A Bible takes about as much space as a photo.
 | Method 4 |
This requires an internet connection for both your home and church PCs.
Solution overview
1. Move your home PC VideoPsalm document folder into a Dropbox folder and make VideoPsalm point to this folder via its options.
2. Setup your church PC VideoPsalm document folder to the same Dropbox folder.
3. At church, wait until Dropbox finishes to sync its files before you open VideoPsalm.
Detailed instructions
To sync songs between multiple computers, you can use a service like Dropbox or any other similar cloud solution.
VideoPsalm usually stores its songbook files in the following folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm
To setup your VideoPsalm to sync with Dropbox:
1. With a File Explorer, copy the "C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm" folder and its whole content into a Dropbox folder.
2. Start VideoPsalm.
It will load its documents (songbooks, Bibles, images, videos, etc.) from the usual location, namely from:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm
3. In its settings, tell VideoPsalm to load its files from the Dropbox location:
1. Move your home PC VideoPsalm document folder into a Dropbox folder and make VideoPsalm point to this folder via its options.
2. Setup your church PC VideoPsalm document folder to the same Dropbox folder.
3. At church, wait until Dropbox finishes to sync its files before you open VideoPsalm.
Detailed instructions
To sync songs between multiple computers, you can use a service like Dropbox or any other similar cloud solution.
VideoPsalm usually stores its songbook files in the following folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm
To setup your VideoPsalm to sync with Dropbox:
1. With a File Explorer, copy the "C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm" folder and its whole content into a Dropbox folder.
2. Start VideoPsalm.
It will load its documents (songbooks, Bibles, images, videos, etc.) from the usual location, namely from:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\VideoPsalm
3. In its settings, tell VideoPsalm to load its files from the Dropbox location:
4. Click “OK” and confirm that you now want VideoPsalm to load its settings from this Dropbox folder.
The next time that you start VideoPsalm, it will remember to load its documents from this new location.
5. Proceed from step 3 on all PCs that you want to sync your songbooks with.
The next time that you start VideoPsalm, it will remember to load its documents from this new location.
5. Proceed from step 3 on all PCs that you want to sync your songbooks with.
Additional points and remarks
- You will need to "share" your Dropbox VideoPsalm folder with the other PCs, so that they get the changes from the other PCs.
- Make sure that the changes from other PCs are propagated onto the PC before you start VideoPsalm.
- Modify documents (songs, settings, etc.) only on one PC at any given time, or else Dropbox will create a copy of the songbook, giving it a filename including the date and time of the conflict.
(This enables you to identify at what time the conflict happen.)
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